• Brutticus@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    Youtube doesn’t pay attention to what ads get approved, or where they get served. Ive heard stories of people getting served two hours full amateur movies as ads, Ive heard of people getting soft core porn served as an ad, to actual scams and crypto pitches. It’s like Facebooks new AI enabled algorithm. There is actual danger, considering children and the elderly get sucked in to youtubes black hole?

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      20 days ago

      I watched a couple videos on the Diddy case, and a couple days later my whole feed was filled with the worst conspiracy theories and Christian preachers.

      I watch one Youtuber talking about pyramids, YouTube fills my whole suggestions with ancient alien conspiracies.

      I watched one cover of a song, I get recommended the same song for weeks.

      I watch one reaction video, the whole feed turns into reaction videos within minutes.

      It’s a fight against the algorhytm and it isn’t fun. It’s incredible how dumb it is after all these years, and those algprhythms are partly to blame that everyone feels more miserable than they are.